Aram Zucker-Scharff

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“We need to stop propagating the troll-driven meme that “it’s all just trollin’ and boohoo mean words you should cry more” and start making the hard, fine-grained distinctions. The hater trolls use the ‘just trollin’ and ‘just mean words’ to minimize even the worst attacks and gaslight their targets. In hater troll framing, there’s no difference between a single tweet and a DDoS of your employer’s website. There’s no difference between a “you’re a histrionic charlatan” and “here’s a headless corpse and you are next and here’s your address.” It’s all just trollin’ and mean words and not real life.

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There IS no “the authorities” that will help us.

We are on our own.

And if we don’t take care of one another, nobody else will.

We are all we’ve got.”

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““Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this, […] Anybody who looked at those pictures, you’re perpetuating a sexual offense, you should cower with shame.””

– Cover Exclusive: Jennifer Lawrence Calls Photo Hacking a “Sex Crime”.

“”In a few months, Emma and [her alleged rapist] will graduate […] If Columbia does not act to expel him before then, their graduation will not relieve Columbia of the burden of this episode. Instead, in this important moment in the history of sexual assault on college campuses, Columbia will remain indelibly in the public mind as the university where good men and women did nothing.””

– Every College President Needs to Read This Open Letter From the Parents of a Rape Victim.

“It addresses the vortex of privilege and complacency in which personhood can be lost, with Young acknowledging that “more important waxing is for me to listen and think.””

– The alt lit scene’s ‘dirty little non-secret’.